Episode · The Shawn Ryan Show · 2026-10-22
Books mentioned on #350 Mike Hayes - The Navy SEAL in Obama’s Situation Room During the Captain Phillips Rescue
Mike Hayes is a retired Navy SEAL commander, national security leader, and business executive. He spent 20 years in the SEALs, ultimately serving as commanding officer of SEAL Team TWO and leading a 2,000-person special operations task force in Afghanistan.
Mike Hayes discussed Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Rogue Warrior
Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko is a bestselling 1992 autobiographical account detailing the founder's turbulent career and his time leading the elite United States Navy SEAL Team Six.
Discussed“And remember, again, this is pre-internet. There's like one book out. It's Rogue Warrior from Marcinko, you know? And like, there's nothing else out there”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (16) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Never Enough
“You're also the author of Never Enough and Mission Driven, and funded the 1162 Foundation to pay off mortgages for gold-star families.”
Passing Mission Driven
“You're also the author of Never Enough and Mission Driven, and funded the 1162 Foundation to pay off mortgages for gold-star families.”
Ad read True Believer
“Chris Pratt is back as James Reese in the prime original series, The Terminal List Season 2, based on Jack Carr's True Believer. The season picks up nine months after Reese finishes his vendetta.”
Plugged Never Enough
“And this is in one of the, in, in, in, in never enough, I wrote, be intrusive in other people's lives. You know, nowadays, like since things like that, I flat out ask friends, like, have you ever considered harm to self?”
Plugged Mission Driven
“And instead of streaming the seventh show in a, some series, why am I working on, you know, my book? Because that book is going to make money for a gold star widow who doesn't have a house paid off right now, or that book is like the words on the page will hopefully help somebody, you know?”
Plugged Never Enough
“You know, I never wanted to write never enough. I told you like, I always felt like I, when I was in these near death experiences, I was like, I didn't give or do everything I could and share.”
Plugged Mission Driven
“So that's why I wrote mission driven, the second book, because I, I kept hearing myself talking through not the answers to that question, but the process. Like, how do you find purpose and how do you think about transition?”
Plugged Mission Driven
“You want to work abstract first and think about, and I've got this exercise in this book, but basically think about the attributes of what you want. And even if you don't quite know the answers yet, think about, let's just make it simple, geography, size of firm, quality of life, and opportunity to move in the company laterally.”
Plugged Never Enough
“So first of all, the first screening that I don't have to, cause I can just point right here, these two books, you know, cause that's 14 hours of me.”
Plugged Mission Driven
“So first of all, the first screening that I don't have to, cause I can just point right here, these two books, you know, cause that's 14 hours of me.”
Plugged Mission Driven
“And you know, it's funny, but another thing that I wrote in Mission Driven that highly correlates to success is do you naturally circle back to the people that helped you and say thank you?”
Plugged Never Enough
“Yeah. I wrote that in Never Enough. You've done your homework well. Why is that?”
Plugged Never Enough
“Where can people get the books? Anywhere you buy your books, Amazon and do your, do your review, damn it. Um, no, I should say, do your review. Thank you. But, uh, yeah, at this, I'd say, you know, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, download the Audible.”
Plugged Mission Driven
“Where can people get the books? Anywhere you buy your books, Amazon and do your, do your review, damn it. Um, no, I should say, do your review. Thank you. But, uh, yeah, at this, I'd say, you know, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, download the Audible.”
Plugged Mission Driven
“I mean, mission driven debuted at number four in the world when it came out a year ago. Um, and, uh, and so I'm just on a, I'm gonna, I'm on a mission to be mission driven, I guess.”
Plugged Never Enough
“You're a good man, Mike. Uh, I never enough, Sean. Thank you.”